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by yojo 2y ago
I’ve worked with some blog post writers in the past. They tended to be people who were singularly uninterested in career advancement. At least one of them left industry for academia. Different people have different motivations, and some of
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by yojo 2y ago
My wife runs her own consulting business, I’m taking a break from tech work. This means we buy insurance on the federal marketplace (healthcare.gov). It is expensive, but not insanely so. Family of four, living in Oregon, non-smoking, our p
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by yojo 2y ago
I dunno. This is standard practice for things like SEO algos to try to slow down spammers, or risk algos to slow down scammers. HN drives a boatload of traffic, so getting on the front page has economic value. That means there are 100% peop
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by yojo 3y ago
The author’s neighborhood is mentioned in the article. “The "pocket of poverty" south of Downtown where I live, the historically Spanish Barelas and historically Black South Broadway, are predictably well covered.”
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by yojo 3y ago
It is, after all, HyperText Markup Language. The modern app-based web is incredibly far out of scope of the initial vision of “text documents that link to other text documents.” CSS and HTML are loaded with legacy warts that can never be
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by yojo 3y ago
Yep. I was unfortunate enough to get stuck in a money market fund that “broke the buck” during the financial crisis. It took over a year to liquidate, and I think I still lost around 2% of the principal. Definitely not a place to stick mone
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by yojo 3y ago
I don’t know that it proved anything, but it did say the average return rate for 2022 was 16.5%, which is at least an order of magnitude higher than mine and a pretty large inefficiency.
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by yojo 3y ago
Per the article, “free” shipping (and returns) incentivizes inefficient behavior. Instead of grouping your purchases and avoiding speculative purchases, you just buy anything you think you might like, whenever you think of it, and inefficie
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by yojo 3y ago
If the goal is to conduct intentional geoengineering to reduce global warming, there are better things to inject into the atmosphere than sulfur dioxide. Basically just reflective dust.
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by yojo 3y ago
True, but the income tax is brutal. It ramps to 8.75% after the first $10k (single filer) in income, then 9.9% over $125k.
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by yojo 3y ago
In Oregon, there is left on red from a two-way to a one-way. Every time I do it it feels insane, but if sight lines are good it’s reasonable I guess. See: “Left or Right Turn: Two-Way Road to One-Way Road” https://www.oregon.gov&
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by yojo 3y ago
You’re right that I was implicitly referring to top of funnel marketing - things you do to make people aware of your business and get them to your business. And yes, I was most focused on advertising. I would argue that customer service and
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by yojo 3y ago
As a single business, marketing is a totally rational way to boost sales. Collectively, it’s just a tax. If no one was paying, but people were still writing, the best solutions would likely bubble to the top. But as soon as someone pays for
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by yojo 3y ago
IKEA has huge economies of scale, a ruthless focus on efficiency, little marketing, and reasonably low margins (~8%). At any given price point, their products are likely to be the best available, with the caveat that they do offer things at
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by yojo 3y ago
Not sure what your standards are, but a notably bad cover also shows the author has invested essentially $0 in their book. You can get passable quality work from sites like GetCovers for ~$10-$30 (I think I paid $25). Though it’s possible t
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by yojo 3y ago
Maybe? I'm having a hard time finding a contemporary example. Bezos bowed out (though Amazon culture was famously bad for years), and even Facebook doesn't have 100k employees. My point though is there is a difference between havi
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by yojo 3y ago
High process and high collaboration/coordination is not the only alternative to silos. Google in the mid aughts still had tightly aligned teams with clear priorities. But they were also transparent in what they were doing, and open to
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by yojo 3y ago
I think “rediscovering” the old ways of operating is a charitable interpretation that makes it sound like these patterns are somehow better. Silos and fiefdoms don’t benefit the company, they benefit the professional managers that are using
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by yojo 3y ago
FWIW, I tried this with both my sons. They both started using the gestures the same day they started actually talking :-/ I have friends who had much more success with it, but the value will largely depend on your child’s relative deve
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by yojo 3y ago
I think it is useful to draw a distinction between “new” nootropics and those with hundreds of years of demonstrated use. While nicotine has not historically been used in isolation, it has been used both in recreation and religion settings
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by yojo 3y ago
I also fixed my RSI issues with exercise, though I get a lot more benefit from cardio. I find it extremely helpful to take a mid-workday walk, ~20 minutes, usually after lunch. My brain turns off to digest anyway, so I lose little useful wo
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by yojo 3y ago
I’ve found it helps to go to your doctor with a game plan. Research your issue, figure out what the desired course of diagnosis and/or treatment is, then ask for it at the doctor’s. They will usually just give you the referral you wa
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by yojo 3y ago
The article points out that the ACA caps insurer profits at 15%. A 15% profit doesn’t begin to explain the double cost of American healthcare. The article postulates it’s all the middlemen, which, incidentally, the insurers are acquiring in
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by yojo 3y ago
Exactly. Municipal broadband is a potentially existential threat to Comcast. Comcast is highly motivated to see early high-profile municipal projects fail. Each household they siphon off with this service drives up the average cost per subs
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by yojo 3y ago
I believe you’re referring to “nominal” vs “actual” size. For anyone who doesn’t know, a 2x4 is actually ~1.5”x3.5” Dimensional lumber is the original shrinkflator
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by yojo 3y ago
I follow what independent authors are trying for marketing, and some of them are having great success with TikTok. For them it absolutely is changing how books are sold, as before finding success on TikTok, they literally weren’t selling mu
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by yojo 3y ago
That’s not what the article said. Verbatim quote (emphasis mine): “…marigolds and sage plants exposed to the noise of traffic from a busy motorway suffered stunted growth” There’s a link in the article with more details on the experimenta
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by yojo 3y ago
If you’re growing the bamboo used in production, you’re starting by capturing the carbon that is eventually released on burning at end of life. So it’s likely carbon neutral already (though may produce other harmful pollutants).
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by yojo 3y ago
Two-way data binding is a foot-gun for sure (I also worked in a large knockout codebase circa 2010), but man is the alternative a PITA when you’re just filling in a form. And the problem only shows up when you start propagating two-way data
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by yojo 3y ago
I lived outside Webvan’s markets, but I had a (then teenage) friend in LA who used Webvan for underage alcohol delivery. Apparently they weren’t doing any kind of age verification. Growth at any cost indeed. I’d say times have changed, but

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